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Transferring Data/Files and Programs for one Win 10 laptop to another Win 10 Laptop

  • 28-01-2018 09:44PM
    #1
    Passport1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭


    Hi

    Does anyone know of any free software that allows you to transfer/migrate files/data/programs from 1 laptop running Windows 10 to another laptop running windows 10 or are there any inbuilt programs/features in windows 10 that supports this

    Thoughts?
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,146 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    If you have a home network, you should be able to share files between each laptop over the network. In Windows you can setup a homegroup and give access to specific folders/directories. But this will generally give poor performance for transferring a lot of files, so it depends on what you are transferring. If you have a USB hard disk, this might make things quicker/easier.

    As for programs. No you will need to re-install these again on the new machine. And depending on licenses you might not be able to use the programs across two machines.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 19,205 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Passport1 wrote: »
    Hi

    Does anyone know of any free software that allows you to transfer/migrate files/data/programs from 1 laptop running Windows 10 to another laptop running windows 10 or are there any inbuilt programs/features in windows 10 that supports this

    Thoughts?
    Thanks

    For files and data use a USB hd or key
    It's actually quite awkward to get 2 PC's to talk to each other directly.
    For programs generally have to use the installer as opposed to just copying data as there are registry keys etc involved


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